Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. - Deborah Tannen

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Deborah Tannen: "Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone."

Deborah Tannen's Quotations

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Alone	Balancing	Cogs	Communication
Concert	Conflicting	Continual	Independence
Intimacy	Juggling	Needs	Others
Ourselves	Rather	Simply	Survive
Wheel	World

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